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Trump in Davos, Switzerland:

"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".

German is the main language of Switzerland.
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.

John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.

Pay-to-play imperialism.
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.

Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.

Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.

It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Duck Durbin spills the truth about Bondi planing to whitewash the Epstein files!!! Read these!!! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
July 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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pajo2009.bsky.social
What a PIG!!!!
July 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Concerning…
June 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)
from @electricfutures After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. It's Monday. @DOGE is the laziest, most overpaid bunch of incompetent, unelected bureaucrats we've ever seen. The first thing I did is add up the "saved" column for all canceled contracts and real estate. The numbers are $16.5B and $O.14B, respectively. Odd... Since almost all of the purported savings come from contracts, we'll focus on that. The single biggest ticket item is a DHS contract listed as saving $8 billion. Wow, that's a huge contract! Actually no, it's $8 million. They must have tried to automate scraping the FPDS form and failed. That means we're down to $8.5B in savings. 3/ The next 3 biggest ticket items are all USAID contracts listed as $655M each, so $2B total. Wow, pretty big. Wait, these are IDVs, not contracts. $655M is the entire set-aside, being triple counted. In the first 5 years, only $73M was awarded, and only 2 years remain. 4/ So we're down to $6.5B in savings, and an alarming trend emerges: @DOGE does not seem to understand how the government contracts they are canceling work. The savings they are claiming are not annual savings, but rather hypothetical savings if we spent every unobligated penny. 5/ And more importantly, they are just getting it *wrong*, with alarming consistency. These numbers are erroneous. This "select group of geniuses" has not double checked even the LARGEST items accounting for the bulk of their claimed savings. This is a sad, pathetic farce Here's the next biggest item: an IT services contract for the Social Security Administration worth $1B. That's a lot of savings! Well, again, this contract spanned 6 years. 80% has already been spent. Ah well, more like $240M in savings spread over the next 3 years. $80M/year. In 2023, this contract funded 1000 FTEs working $100/hr. Did we need 1000 SWEs working on SSA infrastructure? Probably not - these could be valid savings (disclaimer: no idea what they actually did). But worth noting that these cuts will impact many private sector jobs as well. And if anyone is curious, there are currently 17 lines that say "SEE FPDS" rather than the savings amount, I guess because their automated scraping failed. I did it manually and it took roughly ~10 minutes. But that's too much to ask of super geniuses working 120 hours/week!
February 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
February 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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decodingfoxnews.bsky.social
The first ever Biden vs. Trump PRICE CHECK! President Donald J. Trump promised he would start to get prices down on day one of his presidency. This is a quick list of some common grocery items.
February 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Alex Jones is currently interviewing Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer who was accused of illegally trafficking weapons to conflict zones around the world and conspiring to kill Americans.

Bout has recently been caught negotiating to sell weapons to Ansar Allah (the Houthis)
February 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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drericding.bsky.social
This was posted yesterday morning before the DCA crash. Prescient.
January 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago
January 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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How is this not the biggest scandal in America right now? Isn’t this unprecedented??
Maybe Dems in the Senate should take a break from voting to confirm Trump nominees & condemn the guy who said he wanted Pelosi ‘hanged’ on Jan 6th, & also condemn the guy who just released him from prison! Sheesh.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Jan 25
Trump gives top stormtrooper Stewart Rhodes a seat on stage at his speech, in case you thought he was done with January 6
Tweet by Selina Wang: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is at Trump’s speech in Las Vegas, just days after Trump commuted his 18-year sentence. Rhodes has VIP seating on the stage where President Trump is about to take the stage to promote his “no tax on tips” proposal
January 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Now that TikTok has officially gone dark, I’m re-upping my post from a few days ago to remind folks that this praise for Trump is wrong.
January 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico will retaliate if Trump follows through with his proposed tariffs — a move her government warns could kill 400,000 U.S. jobs and drive up prices for U.S. consumers.
November 28, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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"It’s the same reason we had a pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church."
RFK compared CDC to 'Nazi death camps' and child vaccines to church sex abuse: report
A new report unearthed years-old comments made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — President-elect Donald Trump's nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services — in which Kennedy said a separa...
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November 28, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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axidentaliberal.bsky.social
Last time Trump imposed tariffs on China

They retaliated against American soybean farmers-who then lost all their Chinese buyers

And the farmers had to get bailed out by subsidies

So not only were the tariffs an abject failure

They wound up costing the American people $23 billion in subsidies
November 27, 2024 at 5:48 AM
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Murray: We're learning that lawyers for Trump have been investigating whether Boris Epshteyn sought to gain financially from his access to Donald Trump and others in Trump's orbit..
November 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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“Those seeking to curry favor with the incoming administration can now donate directly toTrump
without their names or potential conflicts ever becoming public. And unlike with campaign contributions, foreign nationals are allowed to donate to the transition.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...
Trump Is Running His Transition Team on Secret Money
Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:04 AM